BRUNSWICK - A 22-year-old man acted alone when he bludgeoned his father and seven others to death inside a coastal Georgia mobile home, police said Tuesday, though authorities would not say what type of weapon was used.

Arrest warrants showed each had been beaten with a blunt object. None of the victims had been shot, Glynn County police Capt. Jay Wiggins said.

Guy Heinze Jr., who cried "my whole family's dead" when he reported the slayings in a frantic 911 call Aug. 29, was charged Friday with eight counts of murder.

Clint Rowe, an uncle to four of the dead, said he found that hard to believe unless the victims were drugged, especially with several grown men among those killed.

"They would've fought until the end," Rowe said. "Wouldn't you think one person would've had a hard time killing eight people with a blunt object without someone giving them a fight?"

Hours after the slayings were discovered, police jailed Heinze on charges of drug possession, evidence tampering and lying to police. He was released on bond but charged with the killings nearly a week later.

His attorney, Ron Harrison, said Heinze was not involved in the slayings.

"He's upset and aggravated at being placed back in jail and is totally distraught over the whole situation," Harrison said.

Police have released few details about the brutal attack, including a possible motive, saying they don't want to reveal anything that could jeopardize the case.

The dead included the suspect's father, 45-year-old Guy Heinze Sr., and six members of an extended family the Heinzes lived with in a 980-square-foot mobile home just north of the port city of Brunswick, midway between Savannah and Jacksonville, Fla.

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Unless the entire family was deeply drugged, HOW was it physically possible for one person to beat to death 6-7 adults, let alone do it so quietly that not one neighbor heard a sound? (Not like manufactured homes are soundproof.)
And apparently happened in the middle of the night, or wee hours, when even the slightest sound would carry...?

I agree. Something is wrong with this picture. When the first blows fell on the first adult, all things being normal, there would have been screams, an attempt to fight back or to run away. Nobody would just sit there and let themselves be beaten to death and the other adults would have heard the screams and either tried to stop the attack or run away, taking at least some of the children. Something doesn't fit here.